Stranger on the internet: Online self-disclosure and the role of visual anonymity

Uses and Gratifications of Problematic Social Media Use Among University Students: a Simultaneous Examination of the Big Five of Personality Traits, Social Media Platforms, and Social Media Use Motives

“…Findings in the present study showed that being younger was positively related to all social media use motives except as a task management tool and for informational and educational gratifications. This finding may be supported by those studies that have indicated an increasing frequency of selfie uploads and edits (Kim and Chock 2017;Sorokowski et al 2016), higher online disclosure (Misoch 2015), and higher use of Snapchat (Grieve 2017) by younger individuals. The result may also be explained by the different generations that participated in the present study.…”

“…This finding is consistent with a crosssectional study that reported higher usage of Facebook as a task management tool on the part of extraverts (Horzum 2016), as well as with a systematic review that noted a positive association between extraversion and higher usage of social media for the social consolidation of existing relationships (Kuss and Griffiths 2011). Extraverts have higher number of general and actual friends and group memberships (Bachrach et al 2012;Kim and Chock 2017;Moore and McElroy 2012), post more status updates and selfies (Bachrach et al 2012;Sorokowska et al 2016), are more socially active on social media by posting more comments and Blikes^on others' selfies, and demonstrate a greater amount of self-disclosure (Choi et al 2017;Misoch 2015). Despite extraverts' higher levels of social activities, introverts engage in more PSMU than extraverts.…”

“…Extraverted individuals use social media for the gratifications of meeting new people and socializing, informational and educational gratifications, and as a task management tool (Horzum 2016). They also post higher numbers of photos and selfies (Kim and Chock 2017), have a higher number of online friends (Amichai-Hamburger and Vinitzky 2010), and they tend to demonstrate higher self-disclosure (Misoch 2015). Agreeableness has been found to positively relate with gratifications of maintaining existing relationships and informational and educational gratifications, and to negatively relate with expressing or presenting a more popular self and entertainmental gratifications (Horzum 2016).…”

Impression management via content-dependent 'liking' on social media

“…Many organizations have started to view the social network profiles of prospective applicants (Chiang and Suen, 2015;Muscanell, 2013) and assess the image that these applicants may present on professional networks and settings (Posey et al, 2010;Sievers et al, 2015). In response, social network users have thus started to recognize the importance of managing impressions online and adopted appropriate and potentially selective, idealized or realistic self-presentation strategies online (Gosling et al, 2011;Harman et al, 2005;Krämer and Winter, 2008;Misoch, 2015;Muscanell, 2013;Seidman, 2013;Sievers et al, 2015). This may be due to the fact that social network users often may have personal and professional contexts on their contact list.…”

Personal journal blogs as manifest internal conversation toward self-innovation: A semiotic phenomenological analysis

“…They are used mainly to express personal views and commentaries (Nardi, Diane, Schiano, Gumbrecht, & Swartz, 2004), and are often linked to a profile that may disclose personal information about its author (Kumar, Novak, Raghavan, & Tomkins, 2004;Misoch, 2015). Blogging may be characterized as an outlet for thoughts and feelings with patently emotional content; a way to explore obsessive and passionate issues.…”